Unlike Ford, GM isn't even waiting to see how many concessions the CAW leadership is willing to hand over before announcing that they're sack 1200 workers in Windsor.

Seems every time I open the newspaper these days one of the big three is hammering their workers and the once militant CAW is bending over backwards with excuses for the bosses.

This time it's CAW Economist Jim Stanford blaming the old boogyman of the foreign worker when he says;

"Most of the vehicles are sold by companies that are not based here and most of those sales are imported from offshore. Places like Japan, Korea, Europe,"

Now that may be factual, but is it really the best analysis that a union economist can come up with?

It's an analysis that shifts the blame from where it belongs, the capitalists at General Motors, and onto the international working class.